Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. In this essay, we’ll go deeper into the gradients of marketplace models that a company can sequence to, and as a follow up, we will do the same for platforms.

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Buffer Resources

APRIL 10, 2024

Fast-forward a decade, and the landscape of creator monetization has changed completely.   Whether you have 3,000 or 300,000 followers, you can monetize your Instagram with the right strategy. And this might be where your next monetization idea comes from. Let’s get into it.

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Streamlining Success: What is the Role of Automation in Customer Lifecycle Management for Recurring Revenue? This blog post explores how employing automation in CLM can revolutionize the way businesses nurture their customer base, enhance engagement, and secure recurring revenue streams.

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Stax

APRIL 18, 2024

Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Software-as-a-Service Providers (SaaS) operate within the same market, thus creating a push-and-pull revenue dynamic. TL;DR ISVs develop and distribute software products independently and often collaborate with hardware manufacturers and platform providers.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 14, 2021

Historically, freelancers have had a number of platforms to connect with potential employers, including Upwork and Fiverr. As the demand for freelance work increases, it stands to reason that the number of platforms mirrors this growth. What Is LinkedIn Marketplace? How Does LinkedIn Marketplace Work?

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The Walmart Marketplace is among the fastest-growing e-commerce stores out there, so if you’re looking for an Amazon alternative, it’s a serious contender. But how do you make the most of Walmart Marketplace ? Well, let’s take a look, starting with how the platform operates. What is Walmart Marketplace?

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Subscription Flow

MARCH 20, 2024

Keeping all this in mind, in the first section of this blog, we will first be seeing what is SimpleCirc, its features, and why exactly is it such a hot choice for magazine owners in today’s marketplace. SimpleCirc’s creative strategy guarantees smooth financial flows, which is advantageous to both consumers and businesses.

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This evolution has paved the way for subscription and recurring revenue models to emerge as powerful strategies for sustainable growth. The latest whitepaper, “Monetization in the Digital Economy,” delves deep into why and how businesses are transitioning from traditional sales models to subscription-based approaches.

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Subscription Flow

APRIL 23, 2024

Invest in the right billing and subscription-management software to automate your workflows after carefully assessing three of the best options in the market. Understanding Paddle in 2024 Catering to more than 3000 SaaS clients in over 200 markets, Paddle is a market-leading billing and revenue management software.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In part two of our Sequencing Business Models series , we talked about the different types of marketplaces and what needs to be built to be effective in each of them. This builds on the first essay in the series of how there has been an increase in interest of SAAS-like models interested in becoming marketplaces over time.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

What you’ll see in that cloud spend box is actually Gartner’s 2020 estimate for infrastructure as a service spending for companies, which was $50 billion. And if you also look at the platform as a service category, that’s also an additional $50 billion of spend, and that’s typically with those same vendors.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 10, 2024

Many brands and companies run aggressive Instagram marketing campaigns to expand their reach and establish a strong online presence. Hundreds of influencers appear every week on Instagram who convert from different platforms such as TikTok and YouTube and bring in their organic audiences. Mixx TrustPilot Rating: 3.7 for 50 followers.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Niall Wall, Box SVP of Business and Corporate Development alongside Vicki Lin, Stripe’s Head of Ecosystem and Cecilia Stallsmith, Slack’s Director of Platform Marketing discuss scaling your revenue via indirect channels and platform ecosystems. We’re a cloud content management platform.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. In this essay, we’ll go deeper into the gradients of marketplace models that a company can sequence to, and as a follow up, we will do the same for platforms.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

A recent Forrester Consulting study commissioned by Intercom, Drive Conversational Experiences For A Future-Ready Customer Support Strategy , revealed that 54% of teams can’t personalize support with their tech stack and 50% waste time jumping between tools. Strategy first, technology second. Let’s dive in.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

For app entrepreneurs and ecommerce store owners, the battle to be noticed in the marketplace is ongoing. For customers, the process of looking for apps to download usually takes place in one of the four leading app marketplaces; Google Play, Apple App Store , Windows Store, and the Amazon App Store. Is it safe? Let’s go ??.

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FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

From leading sales at Zillow to brand strategy at Tumblr to revenue at FiscalNote (a global policy platform), Justin Scott started noticing a trend. Across markets, companies were “taking big data sets and visualizing them in interesting ways to create user experiences.” And we need platforms to be able to do that.

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Software Platform Consulting

MAY 6, 2019

There are also great resources for metrics specific to marketplaces (see here ). But much of my work is with a special kind of network, where one side of the platform is an enterprise buyer (or supplier) and on the other side is their supply base (or customers). Invoicing and payment (e.g., Buyer-Supplier Revenue Mix.

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Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

For every business, the most important thing is the processing of transactions. And to process payments a secure system is needed. It is essential to the coordination of safe and easy business transactions. SubscriptionFlow now offers MoR services. Merchant of Record (MoR) is one such system.

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Payrix

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Software companies embark on their embedded payments journey only to discover they’ve underestimated the complexity that’s involved and struggle to launch. If you’re thinking about Embedded Payments for your platform, make time to listen to this episode of the PayFAQ Embedded Payments podcast.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 18, 2020

It’s easy to think of online sales as a marketplace where we buy items for ourselves, but more and more B2B and SaaS sales are now happening online. As of 2019, B2B ecommerce sales globally have surpassed $12 trillion in revenue. According to Statista, B2B sales are now 6X larger than the business-to-consumer (B2C) market.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 22, 2020

To have a successful e-commerce platform, you have to pay to play. In this guide, we will break down these unconventional forms of marketing. Influencer marketing is the practice of working with well-known social media users to grow your brand. This is a highly effective strategy. Marketers like influencer promotions too.

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FastSpring

APRIL 7, 2022

Learn more about how FastSpring helps SaaS and software companies collect and remit taxes globally or localize and accept global payments. Founded in 2013, Messente developed a messaging platform that originally served businesses in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Bring a product to market quickly; start paying salaries ASAP.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

We typically classify SaaS companies in terms of three customer segments, enabling us to better evaluate their needs: Small/Mid-Market (SMM). Business to Consumer (B2C). In this article, one in a series of three covering each of these SaaS customer categories, we will focus exclusively on Small/Mid-Market SaaS companies.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

With that in mind, we’re going to detail captive pricing below, with an eye towards how it also plays a part in SaaS platforms and products. One example of this would be tax preparation software platforms that can enable one person to prepare federal taxes for the current year, but require modules for things like custom reports.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

With that in mind, we’re going to detail captive pricing below, with an eye towards how it also plays a part in SaaS platforms and products. One example of this would be tax preparation software platforms that can enable one person to prepare federal taxes for the current year, but require modules for things like custom reports.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In this guide, we’ll discuss the benefits of buying and selling a micro startup, the trends changing M&R strategy, and the top tools you can use to sell (or buy) your startup. Micro startup acquisitions are a move away from buying businesses with established products or even proven revenue streams.

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Casey Accidental

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Tim Kendall, the former President of Pinterest, repeated those words at an all hands to describe our strategy for monetization a few years ago. My role as an advisor to Greylock’s portfolio companies allows me to work with many different types of businesses: consumer social, marketplaces, SaaS, etc.

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User Pilot

APRIL 21, 2024

We also share examples of different conversion paths and optimization strategies. TL;DR A conversion path is a step-by-step process that guides prospects. Userpilot is a product growth platform. Here’s an example of a Userpilot user persona: Role in the company ( Product Marketing Manager ). Let’s get to it!

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OPEXEngine

MAY 18, 2021

Just six Cloud companies listed on the Bessemer Nasdaq Cloud Index each are valued at over $100B, and together currently represent a market capitalization well over $1trillion. In this blog, we are looking at the business metrics that can be measured quantitatively and providing a few insights on how investors analyze them.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Founded in 2019, Cognota is the first and only LearnOps platform for corporate learning and development teams. There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform. He also shares insights about how Cognota is maintaining ownership over the category they created while encouraging dialogue and collaboration in the market.

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FastSpring

MARCH 25, 2019

Successful software companies across the globe understand that partnering with a full-service ecommerce platform is the key to growing their business. Keep reading to find out why outsourcing your ecommerce can empower you to stay competitive in the global software marketplace.

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ProfitWell

APRIL 1, 2020

White-labeling services for SaaS products have become very popular over the past decade. When done correctly, an entire brand can be built around a SaaS white-label product, but you’ll need to price it correctly in order to maximize revenue. Either they use it as their own, or they resell said platform to another company.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Who creates an online marketing strategy that’s consistent with company goals and objectives? For the most part, the role of an Ecommerce Manager is very similar to that of any marketing manager. Know Company Strategy and Goals. The overall business strategy should guide every digital marketing decision.

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Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Thousands of businesses are willing to spend unbelievable amounts of money to rank at the top of search engine results pages (SERP) and in the most relevant places for their users around the web. In 2019, small businesses spent between $9,000 and $10,000 per month on PPC , with Google making an average of $116.5

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Neil Ringers , EVP of Revenue Grid. Neil’s experience includes a long history of sales leadership, primarily in the Salesforce ecosystem, and is now running revenue for Revenue Grid. They’ve built a new process of guided selling, which Neil discusses during the show.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 23, 2021

Or you can also consider buying a product that already exists, improving it, and then doing a better job of marketing it. While Alibaba is one of the more popular marketplaces, it doesn’t mean that there aren’t frauds on the platform. Next up, you have to set up your online store platform. Don’t make this mistake.

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